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| | Introduction | 8 |
| | Methodology | 10 |
| | Recommendations | 139 |
| | Summary and Key Findings | 11 |
| Chapter I. | The State and Religion | 20 |
| | 1.1. The Problem of Separation of State and Church in Georgia | 20 |
| | The principle of separation of State and Religion in a legal framework | 50 |
| | The influence of the Patriarchate of Georgia over political decisions and legislative initiatives | 23 |
| | The State's response to violence committed by the Georgian Orthodox clergy in the name of religion | 26 |
| | Financial and property privileges of the Georgian Patiarchate | 27 |
| | The State's attempt to intervence in the autonomy of minority religious organization | 28 |
| | 1.2. Assessing the mandate and work of the State Agency for Religious Issues | 29 |
| | 1.3. Registration of religious organizations | 38 |
| | 1.4. Restricting public space to minority religious communities | 41 |
| | 1.5. Problems related to border-crossing and carrying religions literature across the state border | 44 |
| | 1.6. The policy and practice of financing religious organizations by the State | 47 |
| | Material goods transferred to the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Ortodox Church and its purpose | 47 |
| | Transferring material goods to other religions organizations | 55 |
| Chapter II. | Legilative Initiatives Limiting Freedom of Religion or Belief | 60 |
| | 2.1. Amendments to the Constitution of Georgia and potential threats to freedom of religion | 60 |
| | 2.2. Initiatives to adopt the law on religion | 62 |
| | 2.3. Discriminatory initiative againts clergy of different faiths | 64 |
| | 2.4. Legislative Initiatives about "offending religious feelings" | 65 |
| Chapter III. | Inequality in the Georgian Legislationand and Judgments of the Constitutional Court of Georgia | 69 |
| | 3.1. Discriminatiry Legal Framework for Purchasing State-owned Property | 71 |
| | Constitutional Court on Discrimination Norms of the Law on State Property | 74 |
| | 3.2. Inequality in Taxation | 76 |
| | The Constitutional Court regarding inequalities in the tax system | 78 |
| | 3.3. Privileges granted to the Patriarchate by the legal framework for higher education | 80 |
| | 3.4. Discriminatory policy on holidays and religious celebrations | 82 |
| Chapter IV. | Crimes motivated by religious intolerance and State policy | 84 |
| | 4.1. General Overview | 84 |
| | 4.2. Investigation of violation of Muslims' right in 2012-2016 | 86 |
| | 4.3. Investigation of violation of Muslim's rights in 2012-2016 | 86 |
| | 4.3. Case of Vagif Akperov, former Sheikh of the Administration of All Muslims of Georgia | 95 |
| | 4.4. Analysis of the human rights violations of Hehovah's Witnesses | 96 |
| | 4.5. Court Statistics of crimes committed on the grounds of religious intolerance | 101 |
| | 4.6. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights | 102 |
| Chapter V. | Problems related to property of religious organizations | 106 |
| | 5.1. Problem of restitution of property confiscated by Soviet authorities | 106 |
| | Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church | 109 |
| | The Catholic Church | 113 |
| | The Evangelical-Lutheran Church | 114 |
| | Muslim community | 116 |
| | Jewish community | 118 |
| | 5.2. Problems related to the construction of new houses of worship | 119 |
| | Case of Savior's Bible Church | 119 |
| | Construction of a new mosque in Batumi | 121 |
| | Diffculties faced by the Catholic Church in obtaining a church construction permit | 124 |
| | Obstacles for Jehovah's Witnesses in Terjola | 126 |
| Chapter VI. | Religion in Public Schools | 128 |
| | 6.1. Violation of Religious Neutrality and Discrimination in Public Schools | 128 |
| | Ineffectiness of the work carried out by the internal Audit Departament of the Ministry of Education and Science | 129 |
| | Alleged discrimination and violation of the right of a Muslim atudent in Mokhe village | 131 |
| | 6.2. School teachers' participation in lecture dedicated to "Georgia's Allotted to Virgin Mary" | 133 |
| | 6.3. Intolerance and lack of religious / cultural diversity in school texbooks | 134 |
| | Content of school textbooks | 134 |
| | Selection and approval of school textbooks | 137 |
| | Society and I : Review of the subject standards and respective changes | 137 |